The document discusses 5 common file formats used in photography: JPEG, which supports many colors and compression levels for web uploading; GIF, an often animated format used on websites that uses LZW compression; TIFF, commonly used for exchanging scanner images; BMP, a bitmap format that stores raster graphics independently of the display device; and RAW, the digital equivalent of a film negative containing raw pixel data straight from a camera's sensor with one color value per pixel.

1. These are the 5 most common file formats that are used
within photography

2.  JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Expert Groups and it is a popular image file
format. JPEG is commonly used on a digital camera because it supports up to
16,777,216 colours. The format also supports levels of compression, which makes a
photo ideal to upload to the web.

3.  GIF stands forGraphic Interchange Format, which is an file extension for an often
animated raster graphics file and is the second most used image format on the
World Wide Web. GIF uses the LZW compression algorithm and is owned by
Unisys.

4.  TIFF (Tag Image File Format) is a common format for exchanging raster graphics
images between application programs, including those used for scanner images

5.  The BMP file format, also known as bitmap image file or device independent
bitmap (DIB) file format or simply a bitmap, is a raster graphics image file format
used to store bitmap digital images, independently of the display device (such as a
graphics adapter

6.  A RAW file format today is a equivalent of a negative in film photography. A RAW
file format contains raw untouched pixels that are straight from a digital cameras
sensor. A RAW file format only contains one red, green or blue value at each pixel.